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E. S. WHBELERL BUTTON. NQl 265,900. Patented Oct,l 10, 1882.

fly-5 Nrrnn STATES PATENT einen.

ELONZO S. VHEELEILOF SAUGATUCK, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ()NE- HALF TO JONATHAN E. WHEELER, OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 265,900, dated October 10, 1882.

Application tiled August 1B, 1882.

.T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELoNZo S. WHEELER, of Saugatuek, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented new Im- 5 provements in Buttons; and I do hereby declarethe following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters ot' reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the saine, and which io said drawings constitute part ot' this specitication, and represent, iii- Figure l, a piece of wirecloth fromA which the disks are cut; Fig. 2, a transverse section of the button; Fig.3, a transverse section, and

t5 Fig. 4, a plan view, illustrating'the method of manufacture of the button; Fig. 5, a transverse section as applied to tutt-buttons, all of said' tigures in substantially twice full size.

This invention relates to an improvement in 2o the manufacture of buttons, with special reference to suspender-buttons, but applicable to tutt-buttons.

Suspcnder-lnittons have been made with a baror bars across the central opening, by which the button is stitched to the garment. These bars have beenv made in various shapes, bent from a single piece ot' wire, usually, however, so as to form a single bar diainetrically across the opening; but in some cases it has been 3o made with two bars crossing each other. In the latter case the wire has been heilt from a single piece, or if otherwise made the wires at the crossing are simply laid one upon the other without any positive attachment. The result ot' this has been that the thread is so quickly cut by the wire that the cross-bar isl very little used, and not at all with satisfaction. The single bar does not contine the thread at the center, but permits the bar to slide through 4o the stitches from side to side,'and this Working of the button soon wears the thread and causes it to break. The bending ofthe single piece of wire to form the one bar or cross-bars requires special machinery, and is too expensive to be practicable tor general work.

The object of my invention is to che-apen the construction and inake practical the bar-button; and it consists in the employment of woven wire which has been dip'pedf7 so as to solder 5o the wires together at their crossing-point, and

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cutting from such woven wire disk-like blanks, which are introduced into the button, two wires crossing at the center, and as more fully hereinafter described.

I tirst procure woven wire the mesh ot which is at least equal to halt' the opening through the button-baek-say such as seen in Figuiand which has been dipped or tinned, so as to unite the wires at their crossings. From this Icut blanks, as indicated by broken lines, Fig. l, preferably square, the square being somewhat less than the inscribed square ot' the circle ot' the button, and so that the crossing ot' two ofthe wires comes at the center, as shown. These blanks are then ready lor insertion into the button.

The front a and the back b of the button are made from metal disks having an opening in the center, in the usual manner. The disk ot' wire d is placed between the two parts, as 7o seen in Fig. 3, the two central wires, cf, crossing each other at the center, as at h., Fig. 4. Then in the usualclosing-dies the front is closed upon the back, as seen in Fig. 2. This leaves the two bars cf across the button-opening, as seen in Fig. 4, and lirmly secured together by the previous tinning operation, which tinning operation fills the angles at the crossings, as indicated in Fig. 4, and thus forms a smooth union at the crossing, which prevents the wearing or cutting ot the thread. The wires also oi'er a smooth surface, which will notwear the thread.

The woven wire is very cheap, and the bars thus produced costinuch less than the speciallybent bars, and are much superior, in that it obviates all difficulties existing in previous construction of bar-buttons.

In the closing of the button the central part of the wire disk or bars may be forced down- 9o ward, as in Fig. 2, which makes it more convenient to sew on the button.

In case of tutt-buttons, as seen in Fig.5,the disk is introduced in the same manner between the outer fabric which forms the tut't and the 95 tillin g. lt is struck down in the center to give the proper projection, as shown in said ligure.

I am aware that woven wire has been introduced across the opening in buttons, but in all cases this has been tine wire,not affording the :oo

means of securing the button; but, on the contrary, the same diametrical bars have been employed, or the same perforations, as it' the woven Wire were not employed. The essential feature of my invention is forming the bars complete from Woven wire, and Without the necessity of other material upon which to make the stitches in securing the button.

In making the tutt-button the outer fabric which covers the tnft may be omitted, the wire being sufficient to secure the button, and if the fabric is added it is simply for the appearance ofthe .button before it is attached to the garment.

I claimrPhe herein-described button, consisting of the front and back combined with the inner disk, d, cnt from Woven wires the mesh of which is substantially half the diameter of the opening,` in the button-back, the wires soldered together at their crossings, and arranged between the front and back of the button, the two central Wires crossing each other at tbe center ofthe buttonopening to form bars across the said opening for the attachment of 25 Mosns W. WILSON, AARON BENNETT. 

